Happy New Year!

found it!

I found the camera. THANK YOU LORD!!! Just thought you should know.

Guess what we did last night!

One of our good friends was in town last night with his wife and Big Daddy wanted to go visit for a bit. So when he left it was getting close to bed time. With the little ones bathed and my uncontrollable urge to keep the Christmas spirit alive, we popped some popcorn and watched "Shrek the Halls!" Is that crazy? Most years, I am so glad to have just made it through. But this year I just don't want to hang it up! When I finally post about what I did over my Christmas vacation, maybe you will understand why. It was a great one! Now I am off to find the new camera Big Daddy got me for Christmas. It's cute, pink and small enough to fit in my pocket. It's just what I wanted to have handy so I don't miss a shot. The only problem.....it's small enough to fit in my pocket. Which MEANS...I have misplaced it. Please pray that I find it because the pictures on the memory card are priceless. Wish me luck!

Merry Christmas!

If you didn't get one of these Christmas cards from us this year, don't feel bad. Very few did! They took longer than we thought they would to come in. So I printed off a few at Walgreens and sent them to out of town family. My plan was to grab them on Monday, rush to the post office (kids in tow), run in and buy stamps (it was 22 degrees) and mail them before rushing off to our Christmas with Big Daddy's family. Then I stopped myself. Why? If I did it that way, I would be totally stressed and would most likely snap at my children and Big Daddy more than once. If I let go of my obsessive compulsiveness for one second and put my family first, we could get there without rushing around while barking orders at each other. Then I would have time to curl Claire's beautiful hair while watching a Christmas movie all cozy by the fire! (That sounds way better!) Besides, most of the people who would be getting these cards will read this blog and won't be horribly upset if they don't get a card this year. AND many may have gotten some the day AFTER Christmas which would normally be unheard of in my book! I guess what I'm trying to say is that I had a major breakthrough this year. It isn't about pleasing everyone else. My priority is making the holidays enjoyable for my children, not running them all over town in the FREEZING cold just to get some cards out. It is about taking time to enjoy a DVD Big Daddy so thoughtfully put together of footage from our old video camera that I thought was long gone (Claire was seriously like 10 minutes old.). It's about making a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve with the kids even if I do have a zillion things to do before we leave for dinner. I will still do my best to be thoughtful and do nice things over the holidays, but not at the expense of my children and Big Daddy. It was a little hard to come to terms with that, but once I did....man oh man did we have a WONDERFUL Christmas. We had so much more time to focus on what this season is really about. The birth of our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST! It was a great week and I will post more later. Right now I am busy getting to know the newest member of our family. I haven't named her yet....but she is awesome.

THANKS MOMMA!!!

Gotta Go!!! My Grammy is calling me!!!!!!!